Cuong nhu McDojo

[WJPoage]

Is "Coung Nhu" a McDojo or a serious fighting style?

[Toptomcat]

McDojoism is really more about exploitative business practices than poor instruction- stunts like years-long inescapable contracts, forcing the students to buy overpriced paraphernalia to advance, nickel-and-diming their students with charges at every juncture they can get away with, and the like. 'McDojo' is thus not totally antonymous with 'serious fighting style', though it is almost always the case in practice.

That said, Coung Nhu is not what I would recommend as a serious fighting style. What video I can find on them leans heavily on choreographed demos, with techniques ranging from questionable unarmed gun defenses to pole-vault kicks during staff work to one memorable maneuver in which someone ran up their opponent's outstretched legs, sat on their shoulders, and repeatedly slapped the crown of their head.